Wikipedia talk:Notability (fiction)/glossary

[edit] Glossary of Terms

For the purposes of discussions on this page, the following terms are taken to mean the following:

Notability means worth of notice. If a topic is sufficiently notable, then it merits an article. It is used of topics rather than articles, and there is some disagreement as to what the topic of any given article is. As a shorthand, editors usually use "notable" to mean "sufficiently notable to merit an article" and "non-notable" to mean "insufficiently notable to merit an article". The notability guidelines exist to help determine notability, and it is policy that articles on topics which fail to meet the notability guidelines should be deleted.
General Notability Criteria (GNC) refers to the catch-all criterion in WP:N itself, that may indicate the notability of any topic. Failure to fulfil the GNC does not necessarily mean a topic is not notable; subject-specific criteria may be fulfilled instead.
Subject-specific criteria are other criteria, established by consensus, that indicate notability of topics within some particular area. Examples may be found in WP:PROF, WP:BK, etc.
Spinout means articles that, conceptually at least, started life as a section of another article and have become an article on there own. Other guidelines do not state whether they should be considered part of the original article for any purpose; consensus on whether WP:FICT should hasn't been determined, and no broader consensus on the matter is apparent.